Van Basten was heavily criticised for dropping Ruud van Nistelrooy ( who had scored 28 goals for the Netherlands ) before this game, in favour of Dirk Kuyt, who did not score throughout the entire tournament.

In May 2007, Van Basten announced the end of his long-running dispute with Real Madrid forward Ruud van Nistelrooy, who had previously declared never to play for a Dutch national squad with Van Basten as its manager.

Van Nistelrooy began his career with Den Bosch, before moving onto Heerenveen, eventually making a name for himself at PSV Eindhoven where he won two Dutch leagues.

Van Nistelrooy hit 150 goals in just 219 games for United, as well as being their all time European record goalscorer, but fell out of favour towards the end of his tenure.

Born in Oss, North Brabant, Van Nistelrooy started his professional career in 1993 with Dutch second division side Den Bosch, where he was converted from a central midfielder to centre forward after playing part-time for Nooit Gedacht and Margriet.

Van Nistelrooy capped off the year by winning the Dutch Player of the Year award.

According to a 2001 interview with The Telegraph, Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson said that his son Darren, who was at tryouts for Eredivisie rival Heerenveen at the time, begged his father, " You've got to sign Van Nistelrooy right away, he's fantastic.

" Ferguson sent team representatives to PSV's next league game and signed Van Nistelrooy the next day.

Van Nistelrooy looked set to complete an £ 18. 5 million transfer to Manchester United in the summer of 2000.

Van Nistelrooy playing for Manchester United against Chelsea F. C.

Van Nistelrooy signed a five-year contract after passing his medical.

" During his first season, Van Nistelrooy scored 23 goals in 32 league games.

Van Nistelrooy missed most of the 2004 – 05 season due to injury, but nonetheless scored a Champions League-best eight goals.

At the start of the 2005 – 06 season, Van Nistelrooy scored in United's first four Premier League games.

By the end of his fifth season with United, Van Nistelrooy had amassed 150 goals in fewer than 200 starts.

Van Nistelrooy was benched for the League Cup Final against Wigan Athletic, fuelling speculation of a rift between him and coach Alex Ferguson, which Van Nistelrooy denied.

Ferguson claimed that Van Nistelrooy was angry at the decision and left the stadium three hours before kick-off.

Van Nistelrooy allegedly criticised Ronaldo's tendency to hold onto the ball instead of passing to his team-mates, which sparked the fight, after which Van Nistelrooy remarked, " Go crying to your daddy.

Or was it her own first ball as mistress of this big house, a Van Rensselaer bride from way upstate near Albany, from Rensselaerwyck.

The New York Times called it " the prettiest play of the day ," as Wesleyan's quarterback " deftly passed the ball past the whole Yale team to his mate Van Tassel.

San Francisco lineman Guy McIntyre received Van Schamann's short kick and was about to down the ball, but then changed his mind at the last second and decided to return it.

Known for his strength on the ball, his tactical awareness and spectacular strikes and volleys, Van Basten was named European Footballer of the Year three times ( 1988, ' 89 and ' 92 ) and FIFA World Player of the Year in 1992.

With the match headed for extra time a through ball caught the Germans out and Van Basten finished clinically with a shot as he slid along the floor, beating the goal keeper and Kohler to the ball in the 88th minute for 2 – 1 win.

Van Heemskerk was killed during the first approach on the Spanish flagship as a cannon ball severed his leg.

The matched was marred by very inaccurate play, punctuated by flyhalf Jaco Van Der Westhyzen's purported ' drop kick ' just outside his 22 after fumbling the ball.

The ball rebounded off the side of the panel and hit Filmore in the head ( this incident followed a conversation they had in which Hawthorne told Fillmore that he wouldn't pull the ball away like Lucy Van Pelt because ' We aren't living in a comic strip ').

Stevens was, however, instrumental in the defeat which followed, losing the ball to Ruud Gullit down the flank, which led to the opening goal of a famous hat-trick by Marco Van Basten.

But they could not take advantage and lost the ball when Mark Van Eeghen's fumble was recovered by defensive back Lyle Blackwood.

Despite a three-shot lead, Van de Velde chose to use his driver off the tee, and proceeded to drive the ball to the right of the burn and was lucky to find land.

On his third shot, Van de Velde's club got tangled in the rough on his downswing, and his ball flew into the Barry Burn.

Van Lier would look back fondly to his childhood playing tackle football with a taped coffee can for a ball due to their circumstances.

Assisting them is Flim-Flam's friend, a warlock named Vincent Van Ghoul ( based upon and voiced by Vincent Price ), who contacts the gang using his crystal ball and often employs magic and witchcraft to assist them.

Bacardi had architects Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Felix Candela design office buildings and a bottling plant for them in Mexico City during the 1950s.

She then studied for two years with the painter Francis Adolf Van der Wielen, who offered lessons in perspective and drawing from casts during the time that the new Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was under construction.

Köstenberger ( and separately Van Voorst ) state that the Josephus ' reference to the large number of followers of Jesus during his public ministry is unlikely to have been due to a Christian scribe familiar with the New Testamant accounts, and is hence unlikely to be an interpolation.

No diplomatic questions of the first magnitude arose during Van Buren's service as secretary, but the settlement of long-standing claims against France was prepared and trade with the British West Indies colonies was opened.

" ( okay ) started during the presidential campaign and subsequent presidency of Martin Van Buren.

In 1839, Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement visited Van Buren to plead for the U. S. to help roughly 20, 000 Mormon settlers of Independence, Missouri, who were forced from the state during the 1838 Mormon War there.

After being bedridden with a case of pneumonia during the fall of 1861, Martin Van Buren died of bronchial asthma and heart failure at his Lindenwald estate in Kinderhook at 2: 00 a. m. on July 24, 1862.

Van Allen of The University of Iowa during the research performed for the International Geophysical Year.

Van Geel later said that he respected the coalition agreement and would not press for a ban during the current government's tenure.

Truth had a life-changing religious experience during her stay with the Van Wageners, and became a devout Christian.

References to the show in popular culture began during its original broadcast when it was parodied in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, fittingly titled " The Man from My Uncle ", References in other televison shows have continued over the years, including a 2011 episode of Mad Men, " The Chrysanthemum and the Sword ".

Ironically, although President Jackson was able to secure fellow Democrat Martin Van Buren's election in the 1836 presidential election, Ohio voted for the Whig Party candidate and Ohio resident William Henry Harrison, despite Jackson's efforts to gain Ohioan support during the Toledo War.

Tensions sometimes ran high between the settlers and the " Vandemonians " as they were termed, particularly during the Victorian gold rush when a flood of settlers from Van Diemen's Land rushed to the Victorian gold fields.

References are made to Van Diemen's Land during the chapters devoted to Francis Crozier.

File: Van Soest, Four Days Battle. jpg | The Four Days ' Battle, 1 – 4 June 1666, during the Second Anglo – Dutch War

* October 13 – War of 1812 – Battle of Queenston Heights: As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock ( he dies during the battle ).

Van Meter showed up during this time, and sensed trouble.

Van Meter wounded the local police chief, Frank Culp, during the robbery.

Van Meter would be shot in the head during a shootout with police that followed the robbery.

The Brueghels, Peter Paul Rubens and Van Dyck's baroque paintings were created during this period.

Van Allen during the Aerobee rocket firing cruise of the on March 1, 1949.

Van Beneden discovered how chromosomes combined at meiosis, during the production of gametes, and discovered and named chromatin.

De Bewoners Van Het Pand ( Dear Occupants ) is a note-of-eviction to the bored-to-death who wasted their once-in-a-lifetime chance to enjoy themselves, and featured a rap from Def P. Henny's observing nature catches up with him in the Middle-Eastern-flavoured De Droom, in which he dreams of facing The Truth's anger for not lending a hand during wartime " when people disappeared behind the killing moon ".

Van Basten ( left ) with Klaas-Jan Huntelaar during training prior to Euro 2008.

* Air Craft Marine Engineering, an aircraft designer based in Van Nuys, California, USA during the 1950s